- Australia: Regime targets social media algorithms with new user-choice rules
Source: Reuters
“Australia on Tuesday proposed giving social media users the option to select the content they see on their feeds, marking the next step in the government’s push to improve online safety, following its world-first social media ban for children. Under draft laws proposed by the centre-left Labor government, social media platforms will be required to notify users and offer them a choice over their default feed. Users can choose to opt in to having their default feed include personalised content recommended by an algorithm. Alternatively, they can opt out of algorithmically recommended content and instead see posts only from the friends and creators they choose to follow.” [editor’s note: If users want that and are willing to pay for it in some way, they’ll get it without government requirements – TLK] (09/08/26)
- British widow faces deportation from Sweden after 22 years
Source: BBC News [UK state media]
“A 78-year-old British widow has told the BBC she is struggling to eat or sleep as the Swedish government threatens to deport her over a late post-Brexit residence application. Joyce Thomas, a retired nurse, moved to Sweden 22 years ago with her husband, who passed away from cancer three years ago. This came after they were informed by the Swedish authorities that they should have made a formal application to stay in the country after Brexit. Thomas has since had numerous applications and appeals rejected, and Tuesday marks the latest deadline for her to leave voluntarily. ‘This is absolute hell’, she said from her home in Sweden. ‘I can’t sleep, I can’t eat. You get up in the morning, you don’t know what’s going to happen.'” (09/08/26)
- Petition Urging Mamdani’s Exclusion From 9/11 Event Hits 100,000 Signs Amid Similar Push By Giuliani, Pataki
Source: Forbes
“An online petition calling for New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s exclusion from the 9/11 remembrance ceremony later this week has crossed 100,000 signatures amid a similar push made by several prominent Republican leaders from the state, including former Mayor Rudy Giuliani and former Gov. George Pataki. … The petition says the organizers oppose Mamdani’s attendance because of various ‘public positions, associations, and responses to rhetoric’ that are hostile to their values. The petition then outlines eight grievances against the New York Mayor, including allegations of support or association with people who are ‘dismissive of American institutions or insufficiently critical of extremist ideologies.'” (09/08/26)
- Americans’ satisfaction with schools at a low point, new Gallup poll shows
Source: SFGate
“Americans’ satisfaction with the quality of K-12 education in the country has hit a low point, driven by a growing political divide and concerns that schools are not preparing children for college and future jobs. Just 32% of American adults say they are ‘completely’ or ‘somewhat’ satisfied with the U.S. school system, according to an August poll published Tuesday by Gallup and the Walton Family Foundation and shared exclusively with The Associated Press. That’s an 11-point drop over the past two years and the lowest since Gallup began polling on the subject 27 years ago. At the same time, dissatisfaction has increased to a high of 67%. Experts on education and school policy say the findings are deeply concerning but not surprising. Democrats are driving the recent slide, with their satisfaction dropping about 19 points since President Donald Trump’s second term began in 2025.” (09/08/26)
- New Panama Canal chief says El Nino could force further transit cuts
Source: South China Morning Post [Hong Kong]
“The number of ships sailing through the Panama Canal could be cut further due to drought caused by the El Nino weather pattern, the new administrator of the waterway said on Monday. Panama has declared a nationwide emergency over El Nino, a phenomenon developing over the Pacific Ocean that is affecting worldwide weather patterns and pushing up global temperatures. This year’s El Nino is expected to be the strongest since record-keeping began four decades ago. Panama’s restrictions come even as use of the canal has risen …. Each ship requires about 200 million litres of water, which is then discharged into the sea. In 2023, El Nino forced a reduction in daily transits from 38 to 22 due to the dramatic reduction in reservoir levels.” (09/08/26)
- Report Says UAE Explicitly Warned Netanyahu of October 7 Attack
Source: Common Dreams
“Policy experts in the US and Middle East on Tuesday were among those responding to an “astonishing” new investigation from Haaretz, which detailed how Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was alerted weeks before the Hamas-led October 7, 2023 attack that a ‘major event’ was being planned by the Palestinian group – an assault that killed more than 1,200 Israelis and which Israel has responded to by slaughtering more than 73,000 Palestinians so far in Gaza. Highlighting revelations contained in an upcoming book called Hostages: 843 Days of Abandonment, by journalists Shlomi Eldar and Ruth Yuval, the Israeli newspaper reported that Netanayahu dismissed a warning about the attack from United Arab Emirates President Mohammed bin Zayed, which came in a phone call in September 2023.” (09/08/26)
https://www.commondreams.org/news/did-netanyahu-know-about-oct-7
- Sapporo beer moves some production from Canada to the US after Trump’s tariffs
Source: The News International [Pakistan]
“Sapporo is shifting some production from Canada to the United States after President Donald Trump’s 50 percent tariffs hit beer brewed in Canada for the US market. The Japanese brewer plans to move production of non-alcoholic beer currently made in Canada for American consumers to the US by the first half of 2027, Bloomberg reported. … Sapporo is considering buying or building a brewery on the US West Coast or using a contract brewer to support the shift.” (09/08/26)
- Brazil: Supreme Court removes federal police chief, deepening crisis at top
Source: SFGate
“Brazilian Supreme Court Justice André Mendonca on Tuesday removed the head of the country’s federal police and its intelligence chief from their posts, deepening a crisis at the top court and drawing President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s government into the turmoil ahead of October national elections. Mendonca, an appointee of former President Jair Bolsonaro, said in his ruling that federal police Director-General Andrei Rodrigues, a Lula nominee, and the intelligence director of the force, Leandro Almada, headed an organization that allegedly produced six illegal reports on the justice’s activities through the end of August. Mendonca currently chairs two politically sensitive investigations: one into the collapse of Banco Master, which has ensnared several politicians, and another into alleged frauds in Brazil’s pension system. The first has hit mostly figures of the country’s opposition, while the latter has raised questions of wrongdoing by one of Lula’s sons.” (09/08/26)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/world/article/brazil-supreme-court-removes-federal-police-22422186.php
- Philippines: Marcos Kin Arrested in Kickbacks Case
Source: New York Times
“A former speaker of the house in the Philippines, a relative of the country’s president, was arrested on Monday night over accusations that he pocketed $118 million in kickbacks from flood control and other infrastructure projects. A warrant for Martin Romualdez, a first cousin of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., was served inside a hospital room ain San Juan City. Mr. Romualdez resigned as speaker last year but still represents the province of Leyte in congress. Mr. Romualdez has repeatedly denied involvement in the scandal, which involved the diversion of public funds intended to build infrastructure for a $9.8 billion flood control program. … The arrest of Mr. Romualdez came more than a month after Mr. Marcos said in his state of the nation address that multiple cases would be filed against his cousin.” (09/07/26)
- Saudi Arabia: Houthis attack energy facilities, wounding dozens
Source: Reuters
“Yemen’s Tehran-backed Houthis attacked energy facilities and cities in U.S. ally Saudi Arabia on Tuesday, wounding more than 70 people and underscoring the risk of the Iran conflict escalating into a wider regional war. … The Houthi attacks came after Iran warned that energy infrastructure across the Gulf, including U.S. oil and gas interests, was vulnerable in the wake of a tit-for-tat exchange of attacks on ships in and around the Gulf last weekend. The attacks sent oil prices climbing to more than six-week highs.” (09/08/26)
- Ukraine: Two killed in Russian drone, missile strikes
Source: NBC News
“Two people were killed and at least 10 injured after Russia struck the Ukrainian capital Kyiv with drones and missiles overnight on Tuesday, local authorities said. The attack comes after a pause over the weekend as U.S. envoys Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff arrived in Kyiv for their first official visit in a renewed push to end the war between Russia and Ukraine. The main targets of the overnight attack were Kyiv and the southern Odesa region.” (09/08/26)
- UK regime will ban goods from Israeli squats in West Bank
Source: Associated Press
“Britain is set to ban goods from Israeli [squats] in the occupied West Bank in response to an expansion program that is imperiling efforts to establish [sic] a Palestinian state, the U.K. government said Tuesday. Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband is due to give details in the House of Commons later, after saying last week that he would ‘reset’ U.K. relations with Israel. Before the announcement, Work and Pensions Secretary Pat McFadden said that it ‘isn’t intended to be a boycott of all Israeli goods.’ He said that the measures were ‘specifically targeted at the expansion of these [squats], which are illegal under international law, in the West Bank.’ … Senior Israeli ministers condemned the U.K. government’s impending announcement. … The move also was criticized by the U.S. ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, who said that it was ‘discrimination against the Jewish people.'” (09/08/27)
https://apnews.com/article/uk-west-bank-israel-settlement-sanctions-b4d7354221bfe0c48e4bfce7a3b7624b
- No constitutional right to clean water, federal court finds
Source: USA Today
“A federal appeals court ruled that the U.S. Constitution does not guarantee the right to clean drinking water in a Sept. 4 decision rejecting Jackson, Mississippi, residents’ lawsuit over the city’s lead-contaminated water system. The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a lower court ruling dismissing residents’ 2022 lawsuit. The plaintiffs, Priscilla Sterling, Raine Becker, Shawn Miller and John Bennett, alleged that the city knowingly allowed residents to drink unsafe water. They argued that the water contamination violated their constitutional right to bodily integrity under the 14th Amendment’s due process clause. In the majority decision, Judge Kurt Engelhardt wrote that while the deprivation of clean water was ‘grievous,’ it did ‘not infringe upon any deeply rooted constitutional right.'” (09/07/26)
- Iran war drives $100 billion in extra energy costs for US consumers
Source: Axios
“The war in Iran has now cost U.S. consumers $100 billion in higher energy prices, and the bill is rising another $1 million about every two minutes, per a real-time estimate from Brown University as of Monday morning. … The Iran War Energy Cost Tracker from Brown’s Watson School says higher gasoline and diesel prices have cost the average U.S. household more than $760 since the war began Feb. 28. Most of that is gas, though the diesel burden is rising faster of late. On Friday, diesel hit an all-time record high, and it’s continued to rise every day since. As of Monday morning it’s at $5.90 a gallon, per AAA, up about 60% from a year ago.” (09/07/26)
- CA: Menendez brothers granted early parole hearing
Source: KTLA 5 News
“Erik and Lyle Menendez have been granted an early parole suitability hearing, much to the delight of their family. In a statement released on Monday morning, a family spokesperson confirmed that the California Board of Parole granted the brothers the sooner hearing. They were previously eligible for a parole suitability hearing next in Aug. 2028. … The brothers were sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for the murders of their parents, Jose and Kitty Menendez, at their Beverly Hills home in 1989.” (09/07/26)
https://ktla.com/news/menendez-brothers-granted-early-parole-hearing/
- Canada: Regime set to start taxing Canadian consumers in “retaliation” for US regime taxing American consumers
Source: ABC News
“Retaliatory tariffs issued by Canada are set to hit [Canadian buyers of] some imports from the United States soon after midnight on Tuesday, intensifying a trade war between the longtime allies and risking an escalation from President Donald Trump. Levies as high as 50% will be applied to [Canadian buyers of] hundreds of U.S. products, ranging from aluminum foil to raincoats to cheese. U.S. elected officials in states bordering Canada, including Republican Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, have warned the trade dispute will hurt local businesses and consumers. Canadian officials said the retaliatory measure would target about $20 billion worth of U.S. products, mirroring the size of a recent batch of U.S. levies. The targeted goods amount to nearly 6% of annual U.S. exports to Canada, according to U.S. Census Bureau data for 2025.” (09/07/26)
- Two deaths reported at this year’s Burning Man festival
Source: United Press International
“Two people have died at this year’s Burning Man alternative arts festival being held in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert, officials said. The first death was reported Friday and the second Saturday by the Burning Man Project. According to the U.S. nonprofit behind the annual nine-day event, Craigh Mann, 60, was found dead in his camp by campmates Saturday at 3 p.m. … The identity of the first death has not been made public. Burning Man said it was a participant in their mid-50s who experienced an undisclosed medical emergency on Thursday. … Foul play is not suspected in either death, the Reno Gazette Journal reported.” (09/06/260
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2026/09/06/Burning-Man-deaths/2961788743342/
- Nepal holds a day of mourning after floods kill at least 1,300 people
Source: Associated Press
“Nepal held a day of mourning Monday to remember those killed in the Aug. 26 floods, with flags lowered at government offices and families concluding mourning rituals. Monday was the 13th day since the flooding which killed more than 1,300 people in Nepal and Tibet and left some 5,000 missing, including foreigners, according to Nepal’s disaster management agency. In predominantly Hindu Nepal, mourning periods last 13 days, during which close family members stay home and relatives visit to pay their respects. Rituals are held on the final day to pray for the souls of the departed. Several people whose relatives remain missing performed symbolic funerals. Cremation is an important final rite in Hindu tradition, and performing the ceremony even without the bodies of their loved ones provided some families a sense of spiritual release.” (09/07/26)
https://apnews.com/article/nepal-tibet-floods-mourning-f5477d09ca1c56541450828302818d73
- SpaceX rival launches rocket in historic first, says industry is “desperate” for more
Source: CNBC
“German rocket maker Isar Aerospace successfully reached orbit for the first time over the weekend, marking a milestone for Europe’s commercial space industry as the company looks to ramp up launches to meet what it says is booming demand. The Munich-based company’s Spectrum rocket reached orbit on Saturday and successfully deployed its payloads in low Earth orbit, an achievement that came on only its second test flight. Chief Commercial Officer Stella Guillen told CNBC on Monday that the company was now focused on scaling production, saying the space industry was ‘desperate’ for additional launch capacity and that Isar had a pipeline worth more than 10 billion euros ($11.6 billion).” (09/07/26)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/07/isar-aerospace-spacex-rival-rocket-launch.html
- Serbia: Thousands turn out for “Butcher of Bosnia” funeral
Source: BBC News [UK state media]
“Thousands of people have turned out in Serbia’s capital, Belgrade, to attend the funeral of the convicted war criminal Ratko Mladić. Widely known as the Butcher of Bosnia, Mladić died at the age of 84 while serving a life sentence in the UN prison in The Hague, the Netherlands. He was found guilty of genocide by a UN war crimes tribunal for his role in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, when around 8,000 Bosniak Muslim men and boys were killed. It was described as Europe’s worst atrocity since World War Two. A Serbian government minister had initially said that Mladić would be given a state funeral but those plans were changed after objections from some European leaders. … Despite his conviction for genocide, Mladić remains a national figure perceived by many Serbs as a heroic defender of the nation.” (09/07/26)
- 25 years after 9/11, the US still doesn’t know “why they hate us”
Source: Responsible Statecraft
by Scott Hibbard“The failures of America’s war on terror were rooted in a misdiagnosis of the problem. The Bush administration promoted the idea that the 9/11 hijackers were motivated by their hatred of American values and rejected any notion that U.S. policies contributed to either anti-American sentiment or violent extremism. ‘They’ hated us for who we are, it was argued, not what we do. … While the intent of the American military strategy was to deny terrorist groups safe havens, the practical effect was the opposite. American military interventions destabilized entire regions and created the kind of lawless anarchy in which militant groups proliferated. U.S. interventions also exacerbated anti-American sentiments and allowed militant groups to portray themselves as nationalist defenders fighting an occupying enemy.” (09/08/26)
- God Help Us, Let’s Try To Learn About Mechanistic Interpretability Techniques
Source: Astral Codex Ten
by Scott Alexander“Mechanistic interpretability is the science of ‘reading an AI’s mind’. Large language models are ‘grown, not built’. Researchers run training data through a neural network. Eventually this creates a working AI; nobody really knows how. But a neural network is just a set of simulated neurons on a computer. The person with the computer can see the neurons, the connections between them, and which ones activate when the AI answers questions. So it seems like it should be possible to ‘reverse engineer’ the AI. … Unfortunately this is very hard.” (09/08/26)
https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/god-help-us-lets-try-to-learn-about
- Donald Trump Is Rearranging the Empire, Not Dismantling It
Source: Libertarian Institute
by José Niño“Two terms, dozens of announced withdrawals, and the Army’s brigades are still unpacking their gear in Europe, the Pacific, and beyond. Rhetoric about restraint and retrenchment is one thing; the discipline to see it through is another. On that score, the Trump administration has been exactly what its critics always suspected: all talk, no action.” (09/08/26)
https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/donald-trump-is-rearranging-the-empire-not-dismantling-it/
- America is at war in … Ecuador?
Source: Los Angeles Times
by Jon Duffy“American forces are conducting combat operations in South America right now. If that comes as news, it is because the administration has disclosed the mission only in fragments, and Congress has not forced a public accounting. United States Green Berets are operating alongside Ecuadorian forces in the northern province of Esmeraldas in what the provincial governor described as joint operations against ‘narcoterrorism.’ Neither government has said which organizations the ground operations are targeting, what the troops are doing or how many Americans are involved.” (09/08/26)
- Washington Is Underwriting the Proliferation It Went to War To Stop
Source: Antiwar.com
by Thomas S Karat“The Trump administration sent Congress its civil nuclear cooperation agreement with Saudi Arabia. Asked what the deal permits, the president wrote: There will be no enrichment of material. His own Energy Secretary, Chris Wright, has said the opposite. The agreement gives Riyadh a pathway to enrich uranium on its own soil, and in doing so the potential for a Saudi nuclear Bomb. To placate fears Wright has put enrichment years down the road but not in doubt. Wright is describing the document. Trump is describing a country he is at war with to prevent from doing exactly this.” (09/08/260
- As Another School Year Begins, Whose Children Do We Remember?
Source: Common Dreams
by Zahra Eslami“Summer passed. People traveled, went into nature, spent time with family, laughed, rested, and enjoyed life—and that is a good thing. Now school has started again, and children are walking back into classrooms with backpacks, excitement, and plans for another year. But for many families, there is no return to normal. Since the war in Iran began earlier this year, civilians have been killed, injured, displaced, and traumatized. Sometimes their stories reach us. Sometimes they barely break through the noise. I still think about the girls’ elementary school in Minab, where more than 100 children were killed. They were children. Students. We call children ‘angels’, and then somehow their deaths become another statistic of war.” (09/08/26)
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/which-children-remember
- China and the Rule of Law
Source: Law & Liberty
by Leonidas Zelmanovitz“China’s growth is not the result of command.” (09/08/26)
- The Advantage of the Stronger
Source: Law & Liberty
by Jeffrey Polet“More is at stake in the US-Canada trade war than just tariffs and revenue.” (09/08/26)
- Did Bin Laden Defeat America?
Source: The American Conservative
by David Brady“According to Brown University’s Costs of War project, the military interventions we collectively know as the Global War on Terror (GWOT) led to the deaths of over 900,000 people and cost the United States more than $8 trillion. Afghanistan and Iraq ended in failure. Most Americans (at least, those not named Marc Thiessen or Bill Kristol) believe that the post-9/11 wars in the Middle East were a mistake. Indeed, this was a major part of Donald Trump’s initial appeal: ‘They lied,’ he said of the GWOT’s architects in 2016. We are now a quarter of a century on from the horrific events of September 11. And looking back, it is more important than ever to understand what caused them, and why bin Laden seemed to have gotten what he wanted out of the attacks.” (09/08/26)
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/did-bin-laden-defeat-america/
- Help Workers by Breaking Down Barriers to Labor Mobility
Source: Reason
by Ily Somin“Labor Day is a great time to remember that we can make workers vastly better off by empowering more of them to vote with their feet, both within countries and through international migration.” (09/07/26)
https://reason.com/volokh/2026/09/07/help-workers-by-breaking-down-barriers-to-labor-mobility-4/
- The Democratic Chicken, or the Socialist Egg?
Source: American Greatness
by Victor Davis Hanson“The primaries are over, and the November general election looms. Suddenly, the Islamo-socialist podcaster Hasan Piker (who is now infamous for blaming America for 9/11 and warning Jews that ‘someone’s going to come around and take action, not against the state of Israel, mind you, but against American Jews’) is persona non grata on the Democratic stump. Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic nominee in the Michigan Senate race, once enlisted Piker to jump-start his lethargic candidacy. Now that he is locked in a close general-election race against a strong Republican, El-Sayed dismisses the antisemite, who has suddenly outlived his usefulness, as a mere ‘social media person in California’. Clinton-era Democratic politicos like Rahm Emanuel and James Carville insist that Democrats have ‘divorced’ themselves from the hard-left Democratic Socialists. Really? If that divorce were real, why would so many Democrats be cheering a potential Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez presidential run in 2028?” (09/08/26)
https://amgreatness.com/2026/09/08/the-democratic-chicken-or-the-socialist-egg/
- Not stopping 9/11 was catastrophic but bigger mistakes came later
Source: Asia Times
by Greg Barton“In September 2026 we live in a world of uncertainty and change. Geopolitics, technology and the physical world are experiencing rapid transformation that fascinates and terrifies in equal measure. Much of this would have occurred without September 11, but there is a sense in which that day changed all these things. The collapse of 80 years of global order cannot be said to have simply resulted from the world’s biggest terror attack, but it certainly played a role in triggering a series of responses that changed all the nations involved. Could the September 11 attacks have been foreseen and prevented? Absolutely. … One clear way the September 11 attacks changed the world was as a catalyst for a decades-long global ‘War on Terror.’ This war never had a clear strategic plan or an agreed endpoint.” (09/07/26)
https://asiatimes.com/2026/09/not-stopping-9-11-was-catastrophic-but-bigger-mistakes-came-later/
- Is Wage Labor Freedom or Servitude?
Source: The UnPopulist
by Brink Lindsey“Every Labor Day, Americans participate in a holiday whose meaning has gradually thinned out—stripped down to a three-day weekend, end-of-summer sales, and only a passing nod to ‘workers.’ American thinking about work and freedom used to run much deeper than that. At the Founding, and for the decades that followed, working for wages wasn’t seen as a normal fact of economic life. Rather, it was widely regarded as a form of dependence, a glorified form of servitude. That suspicion of wage labor shaped one of the 19th century’s defining political movements. Today, on Labor Day, its logic is worth closer examination. I’m proposing that we go back to the future, reviving the ‘free labor’ vision of Abraham Lincoln and fellow early Republicans.” (09/07/26)
https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/is-wage-labor-freedom-or-servitude
- You Won’t Win the Revolution
Source: Liberal Currents
by Alan Elrod“The descent of stable societies into ones of endemic violence rarely produces anything but new forms of tyranny and terror. People are fond of citing history’s most famous revolutions in support of such extremism, but the full record of armed revolt is mixed to say the least. Widespread revolt in contemporary America is unlikely, but it is also not something we should wish for. Luigi Mangione is not patient zero for revolution discourse, but he is a good example of how febrile contemporary American politics has become.” (09/07/26)
https://www.liberalcurrents.com/you-wont-win-the-revolution/
- Canada Strikes Back
Source: The American Prospect
by Gabrielle Gurley“The Detroit–Windsor, Ontario region was poised for an economic and psychic boost courtesy of the opening of the Gordie Howe International Bridge this summer. Travelers would save time transiting the border, tolls would be cheaper, and even cyclists and pedestrians could make the trip. But the White House had so poisoned the atmosphere surrounding the bridge—demanding and securing new concessions on revenues, even though Canada fronted all the costs—that Michigan and Ontario ended up holding separate celebrations. Ontario Premier Doug Ford headlined the Canadian ribbon-cutting, featuring various provincial and national dignitaries and members of Gordie Howe’s family. Michiganders had Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) cruising across the span a couple of days later in a Michigan-made Mustang convertible.” (09/08/26)
https://prospect.org/2026/09/08/canada-strikes-back-tariff-war/
- The Multi-Billion Dollar Tamiflu Con
Source: Brownstone Institute
by Alan Cassels“In 2009, during the H1N1 swine flu panic, I was among a few vocal health policy critics remarking that public health officials were strangely and repeatedly invoking the terrifying spectre of the 1918 Spanish flu. Why? We had no idea what was going on, but in hindsight the game being played was quite clear: Evoking the worst infectious outbreak in living memory was pretty much a corporate-backed push to justify the stockpiling of an antiviral known as Tamiflu (generic name: oseltamivir). … Roche, the drug’s manufacturer, assured us that it would prevent flu complications, reduce hospitalizations, and stop transmission. Those are the bad things we hoped Tamiflu would help us avoid. The global gastronomic appetite for Tamiflu came with a bit of heartburn: the manufacturer hid the data which supported its approval and licensing.” (09/07/26)
https://brownstone.org/articles/the-multi-billion-dollar-tamiflu-con/
- If Canada is “Ripping Off” the US, Why Is It Falling Behind?
Source: Reason
by JD Tuccille“President Donald Trump’s latest temper tantrum over Canada, including the renaming of Lake Ontario as Lake America after the collapse of trade negotiations, is premised on the claim that ‘Canada has been ripping off the United States for decades.’ At least, that’s what the White House insisted in an August 25 press release about the tariff dispute. But, if that’s true, why are Canadians poorer than Americans and falling further behind? A new study from Canada’s Fraser Institute points out that while our northern neighbors started the century with high hopes for their economic prospects, the years since have shown them lagging Americans. If Canadians are taking advantage of us, they’re doing a remarkably poor job of it.” (09/07/26)
https://reason.com/2026/09/07/if-canada-is-ripping-off-the-u-s-why-is-it-falling-behind/
- Pentagon Polygraph Purge: Why Hunting Military Whistleblowers Threatens National Defense
Source: Karl Dickey’s Freedom Vanguard
by Karl Dickey“Apparently, the Pentagon is actively purging any dissent it finds within its ranks, even when it’s for constitutional reasons. Reminds me of the Oathkeepers before the org went a bit rogue, in my opinion. So federal investigators subjected around 50 senior military officers assigned to the U.S. Joint Staff to polygraph lie detector interrogations. Not for espionage or treason, but to find whistleblowers — though the White House will say it is to ferret out traitors. The polygraph sweep was ordered after leaked Pentagon records revealed that six four-star military commanders formally expressed dissent against extended foreign operations, warning that ongoing strikes are ‘unsustainable’ and have severely depleted domestic weapons stockpiles, putting our country at risk. But rather than deal with these warnings by senior military leadership, they were met with a hunt to find and punish any whistleblowers.” (09/06/26)
https://palmbeachexaminer.substack.com/p/pentagon-polygraph-purge-why-hunting
- How Britain Tried To Rig the Trial of a Genocide Opponent – and Lost
Source: Antiwar.com
by Richard Edain“The jury took just two hours. Tony Greenstein – Jewish socialist, anti-Zionist – had faced fourteen years under the Terrorism Act for three social media posts and a blog article opposing Israel’s genocide in Gaza. The Crown called it ‘inviting support for Hamas.’ The jury called it something else. Section 12 of the Terrorism Act makes it an offense to invite support for a proscribed organization. Greenstein’s reference to a ‘Gaza ghetto uprising’, it argued, amounted to support for Hamas. Three social media posts and a blog article. The bill the State was demanding for those words – fourteen years.” (09/07/26)
- A cop didn’t kill someone on six days last year. What accountability?
Source: USA Today
by Cristine Soto DeBerry and Greg Srolestar“In the spring of 2020, the nation was roiled by protests as people reacted to disturbing video footage showing Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin kill George Floyd, a Black man he arrested and subdued who posed no plausible danger to him or anyone else. … Some of the calls for changes in 2020 went beyond what most Americans were ready to accept. It’s understandable how a call to ‘defund the police’ was easily turned into a political weapon, especially as crime increased during the COVID-19 pandemic. But in the years since, we’ve seen a growing backlash to any change to policing … This lack of effective accountability is particularly troubling as police killings remain stubbornly high, with most data showing more than 1,000 people killed by officers each year. According to Mapping Police Violence, there were just six days in 2025 when police did not kill someone.” (09/07/26)
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2026/09/07/police-reform-ice-killings-floyd-woke/91406489007/
- More on the Proper Role of College
Source: ProSocial Libertarians
by Anrew Jason Cohen“Education is important. Some believe we must provide education to maintain the society we live in. Without education, after all, we would not have the doctors and teachers, etc. (many would say, politicians, police officers, and lawyers; see this post), that are needed to make society work. This seems right. We do need a system that provides doctors, teachers, and more. But that says nothing about the sort of educational system we ought to have. In my last post, I laid out my view of an ideal college. It is, unsurprisingly, very different from what we now have.” (09/07/26)
https://prosociallibertarians.substack.com/p/more-on-the-proper-role-of-college
- Labor Day and the Dignity of Work
Source: Town Hall
by Armstrong Williams“Labor Day arrives each year as summer begins to loosen its grip. Families gather, grills are lit, and millions of Americans enjoy a well-earned day of rest. Yet the holiday should mean more than a long weekend. It should remind us of the dignity of work, the sacrifices of those who built this nation, and our obligation to ensure that honest labor still leads to opportunity. America was not built by government alone, nor by the celebrated names recorded in history books. It was built by farmers who rose before sunrise, factory workers who stood for hours beside assembly lines, miners who descended into darkness, teachers who opened young minds, and entrepreneurs who risked everything they owned on an idea. It is sustained today by nurses, truck drivers, mechanics, police officers, firefighters, sanitation workers, construction crews, caregivers and countless others whose names will never become famous.” (09/07/26)
- The Nuclear Family is a Weapon of Mass Destruction
Source: exile in happy valley
by Nicky Reid“What is so fucking sacred about the nuclear fucking family? This is a totally modern construct devoid of anything even remotely resembling traditional family values. The notion of family as two married adults with two children in one house in the suburbs is actually a violent and relatively recent break from thousands of years of multi-generational village life in which small, tight knit, rural communities raised their children collectively. In fact, the nuclear family as we currently understand it is largely a construct of early twentieth century progressive academia who saw suburbia as the model for a carefully planned society built on the backs of economically efficient prisoners, with the nuclear family serving largely as the perfect means to organize each three-bedroom jail cell.” (09/06/26)
https://exileinhappyvalley.blogspot.com/2026/09/the-nuclear-family-is-weapon-of-mass.html
- The Argument We Forgot How to Have
Source: Law & Liberty
by Stuart N Brotman“American free expression doctrine is younger and thinner than we think. An older legal tradition solved problems we are still arguing about.” (09/04/26)
- AI doomers can’t have it both ways
Source: Washington Post
by Jason Willick“The Hugging Face episode highlights the mischief that could await as powerful AI agents start to populate the internet. Their owners might give them innocent tasks that unintentionally prompt them to ingeniously hack, steal and sabotage as they doggedly pursue a technical outcome the owner desires. The horror movie plots write themselves. But for all the alarm this specter generates, there’s also a reassuring angle. … what becomes of another predictive claim made by AI ‘doomers’: that AI agents will render human beings obsolete across large swaths of the economy? If AI proves to have an irreducibly genie-like quality — at least when performing highly technical tasks — then that would undercut its ability to adequately replace human labor.” (09/06/26)
- New Red Scare a Dangerous Distraction From GOP Failures
Source: Inequality.org
by AJ Schumann“A familiar spectre is haunting the nation: communism. Or so one might conclude from the Republican Party’s increasingly frantic rhetoric. Following a string of wins by the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) in congressional primaries from New York to Colorado to Michigan, even reaching as far as Florida, the GOP is dusting off an old refrain. ‘Communism is on the ballot this November,’ warned House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-LA) at a press conference. President Donald Trump has gone further still, calling communism ‘the biggest threat to our nation there is, maybe since our founding.’ At first glance, this reads like little more than election-year theatrics. The candidates provoking such alarm are, on the whole, hardly the revolutionaries their critics imagine. Many of the policies promoted by today’s Democratic Socialists fall comfortably within the lineage of the New Deal …” (09/07/26)
https://inequality.org/article/the-new-red-scare-is-a-desperate-smoke-screen/
- How Markets Fought Mosquitoes
Source: The Daily Economy
by Byron Carson“More than a cartoon prop, the old-fashioned FLIT gun was one of many innovations that gave ordinary households unprecedented power over pests that plagued us for centuries.” (09/07/26)
https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/how-markets-fought-mosquitoes/
- Buying A House
Source: David Friedman’s Substack
by David Friedman“If you go to a real estate agent in search of a house, there are two questions you are likely to be asked. One is how much you want to spend. The other is what sort of house you are looking for—how large, how many rooms of what sort, in what location. It is in the agent’s interest to ask the first question; since his commission is a percentage of the sales price, he would like to sell you the most expensive house you are willing to buy. It is not clear that it is in your interest to answer it.” (09/05/26)
- Israel Destroying Evidence Of Genocide In Gaza
Source: Caitlin Johnstone, Rogue Journalist
by Caitlin Johnstone“Remember how we were always hearing that the official death toll in Gaza is an undercount because there are thousands of bodies trapped under the rubble? Well, it looks like Israel has been moving those remains along with the rubble, conveniently destroying evidence of genocide. Last month, a report by Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor estimated that ‘at least 10 million tonnes of rubble have been removed, crushed, or moved from their original sites within the areas under Israel’s unlawful military control.’ ‘In recent weeks, Euro-Med Monitor tracked nearly 100 Israeli trucks daily leaving the Gaza Strip with debris,’ the report reads. ‘These trucks carry rubble to undisclosed sites within Israel and further south of the occupied West Bank. The Israeli authorities have not provided details on the quantities removed, the routes taken, the destination sites, or how the material is utilised.'” (09/07/26)
https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2026/09/07/israel-is-destroying-evidence-of-genocide-in-gaza/
- Quantum Vibe, 09/07/26
Source: Big Head Press
by Scott BieserCartoon. (09/07/26)
- Stop Preparing Kids for Jobs. Teach Them to Build a Livelihood.
Source: Foundation for Economic Education
by Jennie Jones“‘Dance won’t pay well. You should choose a real job.’ ‘There aren’t many jobs in the dance world, and it’s really hard to get into. You should have a backup plan.’ And my personal favorite: after I shared with my high school counselor that I planned to dance as long as I could and then go to law school, she jokingly replied, ‘That’s just what the world needs—more dancing lawyers.’ This was the well-meaning advice I got from most of the adults in my life during my final years of high school. I was recently reflecting on that advice, now with the hindsight of more than 20 years of making a living doing things I love, and I realized where it fell short for me.” (09/04/26)
https://fee.org/articles/stop-preparing-kids-for-jobs-teach-them-to-build-a-livelihood/
- Working People Must Recognize Reform Limits of Our Economic Model
Source: Common Dreams
by Bruce T Boccardy“Our economic model is plagued with a history of periodic recessions and depressions. That history is recorded by the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). Recessions and depressions are clinically presented as normal components of the ‘business cycle’. The NBER does not report the chronic instability and destruction of communities and working people’s lives by this ‘business cycle’. Political democracy demands economic democracy. We have statutes, laws, regulations, and rules to protect the common good. Why not apply the same principles to the relations of production? Many economists, psychologists, and journalists have attempted to rationalize the chronic crisis in our economic model. These fanciful assertions are thoroughly inadequate. As Leo Huberman chronicled in Man’s Worldly Goods, some experts actually attributed the chronic crises to radiation from the sun or the path of the planet Venus.” (09/07/26)
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/limits-reform-economic-model
- Made in (North) America: Canada Is Not Our Enemy
Source: The Daily Economy
by David Hebert“The US factories that rely on Canadian steel, parts, energy, and expertise want President Trump not to make those inputs more expensive — and American producers less competitive.” (09/04/26)
https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/made-in-north-america-canada-is-not-our-enemy/
- MMT and the Price Controls That Never Happened
Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute
by Joshua Mawhorter“A unit of account allows us to evaluate and compare the exchange-values of heterogeneous goods by expressing those values in a common monetary unit. But for that common denominator to be meaningful, the monetary unit must itself be grounded in determinate exchange-ratios and purchasing power. Otherwise, we are attempting to express the values of other goods in terms of a unit whose own exchange-value is undefined. These realities bolster the Menger-Mises monetary theory and reveal a profound problem with chartalism, the state theory of money, and Modern Monetary Theory (MMT). This article examines a problem that would arise on the theoretical first day of chartalism: What is the referent of a newly-created fiat monetary unit? Is it market-given or politically-determined? How can a definition-less fiat-token acquire determinate exchange-value and function as a meaningful unit of account in the first place?” (09/04/26)
https://mises.org/mises-wire/mmt-and-price-controls-never-happened
- Oligarchy and Redistribution: A Reply to Paul Krugman
Source: CounterPunch
by David S D’Amato“Krugman admits that where he once saw the absurd inequalities of the present day as primarily the consequences of technological change and the market economy, ‘looking into the math’ changed his mind, and it became clear to him that ‘much of the rise of the modern American oligarchy has been driven by deliberate policy.’ The math Krugman is focused on is the tax gap and thus the effective tax rate. The problem for Krugman’s hypothesis is that the United States was already firmly an oligarchy when the tax gap was much smaller and the effective tax rate much higher. Oligarchy is not first and foremost a product of the system of taxation, and it never has been. It is rather a product of the pre-distribution of wealth through state-created special economic privileges.” (09/04/26)
https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/09/04/oligarchy-and-redistribution-a-reply-to-paul-krugman/
- The Dispatch Podcast, 09/08/26
Source: The Dispatch Podcast
“After Trump.” (09/08/26)
https://thedispatch.com/podcast/dispatch-podcast/the-very-bad-midterms-to-come-for-the-gop/
- Checks & Balances, 09/08/26
Source: Checks & Balances
“Everybody Agrees: This is a Rule of Law Imperative.” (09/08/26)
https://chkbal.substack.com/p/everybody-agrees-this-is-a-rule-of
- Radio Atlantic, 09/07/26
Source: The Atlantic
“How the Government Wastes Our Time.” (09/07/26)
https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/2026/09/ra-the-time-tax/688503
- Trump Watch, 09/08/26
Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
“Scapegoats for Federal Crises.” (09/08/26)
- Antiwar News with Dave DeCamp, 09/07/26
Source: Antiwar.com
“Saudi Strike on Yemen Prison Kills 7, US, Japan, South Korea Start Military Drills, and More.” (09/07/26)
- Fountainhead Forum, episode 483
Source: Fountainhead Forum
‘Eric Kohn on China’s persecution of Jimmy Lai and the fall of Hong Kong.” (09/07/26)
- Larry Johnson on The Kyle Anzalone Show
Source: Libertarian Institute
“How Long Can the Military Fight Trump’s War Against Iran?” (09/07/26)
- EconTalk, 09/07/26
Source: EconTalk
“Meritocracy, Exams, and the Knowledge That Matters (with Daisy Christodoulou).” (09/07/26)
https://www.econtalk.org/meritocracy-exams-and-the-knowledge-that-matters-with-daisy-christodoulou/
- Nolan Denaro on The Scott Horton Show
Source: The Scott Horton Show
“Nolan Denaro on JD Vance, Pete Hegseth and the Failures of MAGA War Hawks.” (09/06/26)
- The Corbett Report, episode 507
Source: The Corbett Report
“The Incredible TRUE Story of the Pentagon’s Missing Trillions.” (09/07/260
https://corbettreport.com/the-incredible-true-story-of-the-pentagons-missing-trillions/
- Free Talk Live, 09/06/26
Source: Free Talk Live
“Riley plays bagpipes in sowntown Keene to promote his run for state rep. :: local campaigns :: Dave Ridley calls about free state politics :: Sarah in NM calls about NM politics :: NY amish threaten exodus over vaccine mandates :: Skeeter calls to challenge libertarian ideas :: David in NM calls to be silly :: Ribeye del Monaco :: chewing myrrh :: Bernie Sanders wants a new agency to oversee AI development :: FBI investigating millions of DLs being sold on dark web :: is the bond market doomed? :: Twitch creators suing over having their content used to train AI :: 2026-09-06 :: Hosts: Stu, Riley O’Bill, Mr. Penguin, Mark Edge.” (09/06/26)
- TechTank, season 5, episode 48
Source: Brookings Institution
“Bans on screen time will uniquely affect students of color.” (09/07/26)
- Unattended Baggage, episode 355
Source: Unattended Baggage
“Somebody’s watching me.” (09/05/26)
https://unattendedbaggage.substack.com/p/episode-355-somebodys-watching-me
- The Good Fight, 09/05/26
Source: Yascha Mounk
“Jared Diamond on Whether Leaders Make History.” (09/05/26)
- Data Centers Are Not the Problem
Source: Reason
“But almonds might be.” (09/04/26)
https://reason.com/video/2026/09/04/data-centers-are-not-the-problem/
- Freakonomics Radio, episode 685
Source: Freakonomics Radio
“How to Survive the A.I. Shock.” (09/04/26)
https://freakonomics.com/podcast/how-to-survive-the-a-i-shock/
- The Political Orphanage, 09./04/26
Source: The Political Orphanage
“Guys with Swords Control the French Language.” (09/04/26)
https://politicalorphanage.libsyn.com/can-trump-rename-lake-ontario
- Quillette Cetera, episode 71
Source: Quillette
‘The Case for Elites with Richard Hanania.” (09/04/260
- The Fifth Column, episode 573
Source: The Fifth Column
“James B. Meigs joins the lads on 9/11 truthers, Tucker, data centers, rogue AI, Flock cameras, Texas politics, and UFOs.” (09/04/26)
https://www.wethefifth.com/p/conspiracy-theories-never-die-w-james
- The Tom Woods Show, episode 2793
Source: The Tom Woods Show
“The Right Should Not Black Pill.” (09/04/260
https://tomwoods.com/ep-2793-the-right-should-not-black-pill/